WhatsOnStage also gave special mentions to Danny Boyle's return to the stage with Frankenstein and his alternate casting of Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the leads; Duckie's Lullaby, the Barbican's first-ever sleepover show; The National's opening of its Paintframe as a one-off performance space; and the benefit concert to rescue Dress Circle.

The NICK HERN BOOKS Best New PlayBelongings by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Collaborators by John Hodge Grief by Mike Leigh Mogadishu by Vivienne Franzmann The Heretic by Richard Bean Three Days in May by Ben Brown

The EMG Best New ComedyGet Santa! by Anthony Neilson Jumpy by April de Angelis No Naughty Bits by Steve Thompson One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard BeanPotted Panto by Daniel Clarkson, Jefferson Turner & Richard Hurst The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner

The SAMUEL FRENCH Best Play RevivalAnna ChristieChicken Soup with BarleyDriving Miss DaisyEcstasy Flare PathSaved

The RADISSON EDWARDIAN Best Musical RevivalCrazy for YouFings Ain't Wot They Used T'BeParadeRagtimeSouth PacificThe Wizard of Oz

Best Shakespearean ProductionHamlet - at the Young Vic King Lear - at the Donmar Warehouse Much Ado About Nothing - at Shakespeare's Globe Much Ado About Nothing - at Wyndham's Richard III - at the Old Vic The Tempest - at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The TIME OUT Best Off-West End ProductionAccoladeRealismThe Animals & Children Took to the StreetsThe Belle's StratagemThe RiotsThrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

The LUCKINGS Best Regional Production20th Century BoyLove Love LoveMacbethOthelloSweeney ToddThe Go Between

The EQUITY Best West End ShowJersey BoysLes MisérablesThe Phantom of the OperaWar HorseWe Will Rock YouWicked

The AKA Theatre Event of the Year
David Tennant & Catherine Tate reuniting on stage in Much Ado About Nothing
Headlong's commemoration of 9/11 with Decade, written by 18 authors & staged in a disused office block at St Katharine's Dock
Michael Sheen & Bill Mitchell's staging of The Passion on the streets of Port Talbot
The Bush Theatre's 24-hour cycle of 66 Books, in response to the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, to open its new Shepherd's Bush Library home The Phantom of the Opera's 25th anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall & screened to cinemas worldwide
The Royal Shakespeare Company's 50th anniversary season & reopening of the Royal Shakespeare & Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon

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